View Full Version : Nice places to live near Morden....
Hellsbells
29-08-2007, 19:26
erm - are there any?
My friend's looking to buy a house, can afford a maximum of 250K. He needs to be relatively close to Morden bcos that's where he'll be working, but can travel up to about 5 miles to get there.
Neither he nor I have any idea whatsoever what areas around there are like. Just wondered if anyone on here did....
Looking on the internet, I see that nearby places are (for eg) Wimbledon, Norbury, Croydon, Mitcham, Thornton Heath. Etc.
Anyone been to or actually live in any of these places...?
:)
this should be a short thread, nice places to live near Morden :D
being serious, how old is your friend. got a family? wanting night life?
Morden is on the Northern Line so central South London is his lobster
I've lived in Sutton, good schools, reasonable priced housing - bus links to Morden.
I like Tooting myself.
Balham is a bit ra for my tastes, ditto Wimbledon (and expensive)
Mitcham, urgh.
Hellsbells
29-08-2007, 21:26
this should be a short thread, nice places to live near Morden :D
being serious, how old is your friend. got a family? wanting night life?
He's 30. No family (well, not living with him anyway). I'll be living with him as a tenant. Not really interested in night life. Looking for somewhere quiet, safe and maybe a bit rural.
Doesn't have to be specifically 'in' london as such. So any nice little village type places within 5 miles of morden... if they exist.
Is Croydon really as bad as I imagine? I've been reading about places just outside croydon such as Purley, which is apparently nice.
trashpony
29-08-2007, 21:32
Can you get a house in a nice place for 250k? :confused:
Hellsbells
29-08-2007, 21:35
Can you get a house in a nice place for 250k? :confused:
of course you can. Where I rent at the moment in east london, the average house price is 250K and it's a nice area where i am. I've been here 6 years and have never had any problems whatsoever, near green open spaces, quiet, close to transport, decent sized houses....
spanglechick
29-08-2007, 22:48
I'd avoid croydon and its environs (including purley) - I was living and working in that area, and it's a very particular kind of vile.
Umm, off the top of my head - what can you get for the money in Wimbledon Chase?
I'd avoid croydon and its environs (including purley) - I was living and working in that area, and it's a very particular kind of vile.
Umm, off the top of my head - what can you get for the money in Wimbledon Chase?
Fleeced?
'Nice places to live near Morden....'
Reykjavik?
London_Calling
30-08-2007, 07:35
Proper London going north - Wandsworth to Clapham, proper suburbia south and south west - Croydon to Kingston, and the largely grubby, twilight world in between. How about Streatham Vale, Mitcham, the Tooting/Streatham borders. Worcester Park and Motspur Park – the last two being veh pleasantly non-descript/numb.
To be honest, "within 5 miles" in a metropolitan area is big.
FabricLiveBaby!
30-08-2007, 08:19
If you're going to live near morden live near the wimbldeon chase end or half way between morden station and wimbldeon chase along martin way. There are a few good pubs in raynes park (within walking distance of there) and some VERY good restruants there. I aprtriculatrly like Olive garden which do the most fantastic pizzas.
It is also withing walking distance to Wimbledon (about 1/2 an hour) and Wimbledon Common (about 1/2 hour where there are some lovely pubs!!!!
If you go beyond bushy road there are some houses very close to both raynes park and wimbledon chase station without the costs attached to the apostle roads or anywhere in raynes park / westwimbledon. Try along cannon hill lane vicinity.
http://www.multimap.com/maps/#t=l&map=51.40427,-0.20681|15|4&loc=GB:51.4095:-0.21407:17|wimbledon%20chase|Wimbledon%20Chase,%20Rothesay%20Avenue,%20Merton
I like Tooting myself.
The best place in London I've lived, its where Id buy if I won the lottery :D
Donna Ferentes
30-08-2007, 08:47
What, all of it?
Andy the Don
30-08-2007, 08:54
Nice place nearMorden...Hmmm
Cheam is very nice, I would not go near Rose Hill unless you have a white van & the accompanying dodgy right wing attitudes, parts of Mitcham are not too bad, the area up around Figgs Marsh/Sandy Lane & I hear they are openning a new train station within 18 months, South Wimbledon is good, much cheaper the Morden side of Kingston Road. You could try Merton Abbey/Colliers Wood (home of the ugliest building in London).
tarannau
30-08-2007, 09:08
Mitcham's much changed to be fair. Once the heartland of the BNP/NF in the South, it's become much improved in recent years as the area's benefited from spillover from Streatham and beyond, growing more diverse and accepting
The town centre's still scrappy, but it's no high st strip like Morden thank gawd. And there's plenty of beautiful green space with the common, Cricket Green conservation area and surrounds nearby. With the railway coming to town it mat be worth a punt, at least in property investment terms. It neighbours Streatham and Tooting for a start, which is better than you can say for Sutton.
Chairman Meow
30-08-2007, 09:17
All I can say is you poor poor bastards.:D I done four years in Morden guv, you'd do less for murder etc etc. Honestly, I'd rather live in Baghdad. I move countries to get away from it.
I'm not helping, am I?:D
What, all of it?
Aye, and the first thing I'd do is melt down the statue of Edward VII and recast it as a statue of Wolfie Smith.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sitcom/images/160/citizen_smith_az.jpg
i lived in colliers wood a short time, wasnt all that keen cos i like left field events/music..there was a GREAT boot fair on sunday in colliers wood but thats long gone..its quite dull/soul destroying IMHO around there but it is a safe area which counts for something i guess..best thing i can say is that the city farm/river wandle are nice quiet parks/wooded area
morden and colliers wood dont have much shopping..(other than the big colliers wood sainsburys)to get any bargains/choice ya gotta go to tooting
ATOMIC SUPLEX
30-08-2007, 09:39
Wimbledon?
Chairman Meow
30-08-2007, 09:49
Wimbledon?
£250K? Wimbledon? Not unless they want to live ina shed.:)
what about hackbridge or carshalton. both of those have reasonable bus routes to morden albiet with maybe one change.
fat Andy
30-08-2007, 13:12
Carshalton is OK as long as you try to stay away from the area around St Helier Hospital. It's pretty quiet and has lots of green space. 2 bed or a few 3 bed houses for 250K. Aim for near the High Street which had a few pubs and is on the 157 bus route to Morden (Good Service), trains from Carshalton through morden and wimbledon on the old Thameslink loop
timebomb
30-08-2007, 22:25
I spent most of my life so far living in Lower Morden......I guess it wasn't the end of the world but I'd rather have not lived there.
The house my parents sold there for 190k in 2003 is on the market again for 290k. If that price is an indication of what you can buy for that kind of money now in the Raynes Park, Merton, Morden area then I really despair.
Carshalton is OK as long as you try to stay away from the area around St Helier Hospital. It's pretty quiet and has lots of green space. 2 bed or a few 3 bed houses for 250K. Aim for near the High Street which had a few pubs and is on the 157 bus route to Morden (Good Service), trains from Carshalton through morden and wimbledon on the old Thameslink loop
I'm looking to move around there myself. I work at London Bridge and the missus in Epsom. Currently I live in Balham and she's already in Epsom, so we're looking for a sort of compromise that still has decent schools in the area. Though we may do the mail forwarding thing and keep the kid in an Epsom school.
I'd never realised how many areas of London are suddenly off-limits when you need to find a decent (state) secondary school! :(
But yeah, Carshalton looks pleasant enough. Sutton for shops, too.
http://www.findaproperty.com/searchresults.aspx?edid=00&salerent=0&areaid=0054
Invoice in the post :cool:
Hellsbells
31-08-2007, 20:47
Thanks for the advice. I'm gonna get the tube down to morden tomorow and have a look round the area and the other places mentioned on this thread. Can anyone who lives or works actually in Morden tell me specifically what is so terrible about it? It says on the internet that it is quiet, green, has one of the nicest parks in london....
We're not interested in pubs or clubs or even shopping really. I work in covent garden and get all of that there. Honestly, really don't care and would actually prefer it if it was quiet in the evenings.
Carshalton (village or round the station, not St Helier), Wallington (not Roundshaw), Carshalton Beeches, Cheam, South Sutton all nice green places to live - be able to find something in your price range.
Buses to Morden but no direct trains - although the Thameslink loop runs to a station a short bus ride away from Morden.
Carshalton/Hackbridge and Sutton have semi-fast trains to London Vic if you work in Covent Garden.
Carshalton Beeches/Wallington - slower trains to Vic and London Bridge. interminably slow to Vic tbh.
Know those area's very well from my youth - much nicer placers to live than the Worcester/Motspur Park options imo.
Mitcham is just shit. Don't do it.
Hellsbells
01-09-2007, 17:43
hmmm well. I've just come back from Morden. The traffic is absoultely insane round there. All the roads are like bloody motorways. I'd be terrified to cycle there.
I got the bus to Carshalton and apart from the mental traffic again, thought it looked quite nice there, really villagey and green. I like the big duck pond :cool:
I also got the bus to Cheam. Wasn't too impressed. The high street was grim, 4 lanes of constant zooming traffic. Maybe I didn't go far enough into Cheam to see the nice bits :confused:
Truepioneer
02-09-2007, 19:38
I might have to move to the Morden/Wimbeldon Chase/Merton area because for work reasons and I'm not really one for long commutes to work.
What are the commuting times from these areas to Brixton, Clapham and London Bridge?
Hellsbells
02-09-2007, 20:04
I might have to move to the Morden/Wimbeldon Chase/Merton area because for work reasons and I'm not really one for long commutes to work.
What are the commuting times from these areas to Brixton, Clapham and London Bridge?
well i got the tube to Morden on saturday. It's on the northern line and wasn't a huge distance from london bridge or clapham, maybe 20 mins max.
Truepioneer
03-09-2007, 18:29
Wow that quick!
How well equiped is the high street and what's the bus service like?
Chairman Meow
03-09-2007, 18:51
Wow that quick!
How well equiped is the high street and what's the bus service like?
The high street is well equipped with charity shops and pound shops.:D As for buses, it all depends on where you are going. I used to get the 163 a lot (Morden -Raynes Pk-Wimbledon) which was ok, but crap at rush hour as the roads are really congested around there.
Monkeynuts
15-09-2007, 21:59
well i got the tube to Morden on saturday. It's on the northern line and wasn't a huge distance from london bridge or clapham, maybe 20 mins max.
Were you asleep?;)
It's a good half hour to London Bridge (obviously quite a bit less to Cla'am). I guess you'll almost always get a seat, though.
Northern Line is pretty sluggish. Remember a time when I was heading out for a night with a mate from Balham; spoke to him just as he was about to duck into Clapham S tube; I'd just missed an overground train and had to wait 10 mins but I ended up on the same Tube at LB.
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